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The narrator and the writer of the "Book of a Thousand Days", fifteen-year-old Dashti leaves the plains where she was raised to find work in a nearby city after her mother passes away. As a person from the plains, she is looked down on as a "mucker", a low-class citizen, by nobility.
Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers; The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich; Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days by Dawn Prince-Hughes; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days by John Gray; Book of Days by China Bayles; The diary of Stanislaus Joyce that he called his "Book of Days” Book of Days, a ...
Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ was translated into English by Wole Soyinka in 1968 under the title Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga. In his translator's note for the text, Soyinka writes that 'a thousand' in English has "the sound and sense" of the number four hundred in Yorùbá .
Marriott Edgar (5 October 1880 – 5 May 1951), born George Marriott Edgar in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was a British poet, scriptwriter and comedian, [1] best known for writing many of the monologues performed by Stanley Holloway, particularly the Albert series. In total he wrote sixteen monologues for Holloway, whilst Holloway himself wrote ...
The votes are in. Last month, on Nov. 14, Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its favorite. Language experts from the publishing ...
A retelling of this story is told by Shannon Hale in the 2007 young adult novel Book of a Thousand Days. Another retelling is in the 1999-2007 manga Ludwig Revolution. The 2015 television film Prinzessin Maleen is based on the fairy-tale. The poet Anya Silver rewrites this story in her sonnet "Maid Maleen" published in 2015.
Few things will put a damper on your vacation or holiday faster than food poisoning.The intense stomach pain, rushing to the toilet and feeling relegated to bed keeps just about everyone out of ...
"Book of Days" is a song by Irish musician Enya. The original version, included on her 1991 album Shepherd Moons, is sung in Irish Gaelic.The subsequent 1992 single version is bilingual, with new English lyrics; this version was recorded for Ron Howard's film Far and Away, and scenes from the film feature in the video.